How to Say “To Kiss” in Hebrew – Ulpan La-Inyan

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How to Say “To Kiss” in Hebrew – Ulpan La-Inyan

A kiss is a נשיקה
, so that yesterday’s סבתא
might say to her granddaughter:
תני לי נשיקה!
Give me a kiss!
Now, that’s a kiss. What about to kiss? Depends on the context.
To kiss someone (or something) else is the פיעל verb לנשק
:
כל פעם שהוא נכנס לחדר הוא מנשק את המזוזה.
Every time he comes into the room he kisses the mezuzah. 
To kiss with someone, however, is להתנשק
:
הם ישבו על הספסל והתנשקו.
They sat on the bench and kissed.
The root of these words – נ.ש.ק 
– is probably related to the root נ.ש.כ
meaning to bite: both involve using one’s mouth to make contact with another person or thing. 
להתנשק
, however, is not related to נשק
meaning weapon.

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